Some 97 per cent of the mammoth UK television audience that watched the royal wedding chose not to see William marry Kate on Sky News. Maybe the Murdoch channel has a republican bias but why is this minority news source being allowed to sway the whole British Sky Broadcasting plc (LON:BSY) takeover?
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Rupert Murdoch woke up the media sector by treating it as a business rather than a vanity project. But filling the boardroom with his family is not businesslike.
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Lord Davies’ proposals to recruit more women directors risks dividing Britain’s boardrooms. Most women directors are non-executive: most executives are male. Davies will create a split across the board table between full-time men and part-time women.
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Steve Jobs is a giant in the business world – and that’s why it is important Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a succession plan for when he goes. And the effect of his latest departure explains why so few other companies allow themselves to be headed by giants.
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Now that the BBC cannot select its presenters on the basis of age, can The Sun’s Page Three girls go on until they are 75? Employment tribunals must be told that no-one has the right to a job; companies must be allowed to choose who they employ.
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Just because trade unions are often in conflict with business does not mean they should not be businesslike. Now that the cabin-crews’ dispute with Britain Airways Plc (LON:BAY) is in its second year, union members ought to be wondering whether their leaders could learn something from the company’s management.
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Yes, the media was partly responsible for England failing to host the 2018 World Cup. Not because of the BBC and Sunday Times accusations about Fifa, however, but because the media carping would continue. Why ask an unfriendly nation to host the football tournament when so many other countries would welcome it?
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Now that Britain has a 30% Club to bring more women into boardrooms, how about a campaign to recruit more left-handed directors, more red-heads – more Welsh, more tall people, more…. You see how silly quotas are?
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If you want an answer to that old question of why there are so few women business managers, don’t look in Britain’s boardrooms, look in the country’s classrooms instead. A glance at the summer’s A-level results shows that girls don’t do commerce.
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On bids, business secretary Vince Cable is like a dog with a bone. Having bullied the Takeover Panel into revising its rules he has rejected the result and set up his own review. He can’t accept that the current system works well.
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